August 2007 - Posts

The Weakest Link

Published 31 August 7 7:53 AM | Essential Computer Security

Andy Greenberg wrote an article for Forbes.com titled Accounting For Human Error, which illustrates how human beings, the users themselves, are the weakest link in the security chain. Enterprises spend millions, or even tens of millions of dollars on...

Filed under: security, user, education, security awareness, weakest link

Managing Hard Drives in Vista

Published 30 August 7 4:15 PM | Essential Computer Security

I used to regularly remove programs I hadn’t used in the past 30 days or any data that was more than a week old in order to salvage every last byte of hard drive space. That is no longer necessary. Now computers come standard with 250 Gb or larger...

Filed under: partition, Vista, data, hard drive

Top 5 Anti-Spyware Products

Published 30 August 7 9:27 AM | Essential Computer Security

To tell the truth, these are almost the only 5 products worth considering, not just the top. There are hundreds of anti-spyware products available, including many that claim to be anti-spyware but are malware products in and of themselves. Products like...

Filed under: mcafee, trend micro, malware, anti-spyware, Norton, Windows Defender, Spybot, AdAware

Beta Test Windows Live OneCare 2.0

Published 29 August 7 9:1 AM | Essential Computer Security

Are you still running your computer with no antivirus or other malware protection installed? Do you have really old security software installed that has not been updated to protect against current threats? Do you just like to play with new, cutting edge...

Filed under: microsoft, antivirus, beta, windows live onecare, malware

Keep Your Windows XP Running Steady

Published 28 August 7 8:34 AM | Essential Computer Security

Depending on the activities you engage in and the sites you visit, you can get some questionable, or sometimes outright malicious stuff installed on your computer. When you have a PC for your kids, or if you are sharing a PC with your kids, this can be...

Filed under: windows vista, windows xp, microsoft, System Restore, parental controls, Windows Steady State